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Ball, Arnetha F. – English Journal, 1996
Shares information about how four African American vernacular English speakers have successfully used their language abilities--the language of their everyday lives--within the context of their expository writing. Discusses principles that have guided one teacher in her work with language diverse students. (TB)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black Education, Black Students

Bernsten, Jan – Language Problems & Language Planning, 2001
Discusses South Africa's adoption of nine indigenous languages to join Afrikaans and English as official languages and the expanding role of English at the expense of these languages. Analyzes studies on South African Englishes, examining the way expanded use and domains for Black South African English (BSAE) speakers will have a significant…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, English, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations

Craig, Holly K.; Washington, Julie A.; Thompson-Porter, Connie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1998
This investigation reports average length of communication units (C-units) in words and in morphemes for 95 African-American boys and girls (ages 4-6) from lower-income, urban homes. Mean C-units increased across the age span and syntactic complexity of the children's language samples correlated positively with increases in C-unit length.…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Disability Identification, Evaluation Methods
Isenbarger, Lynn; Willis, Arlette Ingram – Language Arts, 2006
This article draws from the experiences of a European American classroom teacher, her African American teacher educator, the classroom teacher's interactions with an African American family, and her conversations with her African American aide. It answers the call to speak to the everyday experiences of teachers who seek to acknowledge and address…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, African American Family, Teacher Educators, Cultural Differences
Richardson, Elaine – 1994
Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's "Dialogic Imagination" and Henry Louis Gates'"Signifying Monkey," an analysis of an African American student's essay reveals codes that are distinct to African Americans. Bakhtin's theory alerts scholars to the extent to which language is a social phenomenon. Ambiguous and heteroglossic, it reflects…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black History, Black Literature
Tagliamonte, Sali – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
An analysis of perfect verb forms in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) looks at the distribution of forms by semantic function and co-occurrence patterns in Samana English and ex-slave recordings. Results suggest that despite the overall rarity of this category in the general realm of past time, the most frequent forms used to mark it…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English
Smitherman, Geneva – 1993
A study analyzed the degree to which an African American verbal tradition (Black English Vernacular) survives in the writing of Black students across a generational time span. A total of 867 essays from the 1984 and the 1988/89 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were subjected to primary trait and holistic scoring analysis, and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context
Williamson, Juanita V.; Thompson, C. Lamar – 1984
Two major theories trace the origins of black English to African influence or British Isles influence. According to the African origin theory, black English was created through pidginization, creolization, and decreolization as Africans came into contact with Europeans through the slave trade. The second theory holds that most black English…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black History, Cultural Influences, Diachronic Linguistics
Foster, Herbert L. – 1987
Bias based on race, ethnicity, sex, color, class, or other characteristics is a problem nationally and internationally. Both overt and covert incidences occur in educational settings where most educators begin to work with little or no practical experience with the cultural groups they encounter in the student population. Thus the behaviors of…
Descriptors: Aggression, Bias, Black Dialects, Black Students
Ortony, Andrew; And Others – 1985
To discover whether increased exposure to and understanding of figurative uses of language would result in improved performance on a metaphorical language comprehension test, gains were measured on a figurative language test that was administered twice, approximately four months apart, to a total of 319 elementary school children in Harlem, New…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Concept Formation, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Dillard, J. L. – 1977
The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate that the fields of linguistics, dialectology, language education, and early reading would be well served by a word book of the Black English vernacular. Chapters are devoted to discussion of the social significance of a lexicon of Black English vernacular, the terminology of sex and lovemaking, religion…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Research
Ohio Education Association, Columbus. – 1977
This document presents the proceedings of the Columbus, Ohio conference on school desegregation. Among the topics that are covered in this conference are the following: (1) the development of a state formula to assist local school districts in Ohio, (2) an overview (ranging from Plessy to Penick) of the legal aspect of school desegregation, (3)…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Church Role, Communication Skills, Community Involvement
Walker, Gloria P. – 1977
This study was designed to identify and analyze some of the common linguistic patterns that impede the academic progress of black students entering college. A questionnaire, distributed to educators in communication skills on the college level, asked for the identification of common black linguistic features according to familiarity and use in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Dialects, Black Education
Carr, Robin L. – 1978
Research indicates that dialect is used in children's books to suggest the geographic background, social class, educational level, and intelligence of literary characters. Several studies show, however, that young readers develop negative attitudes about characters who speak nonstandard dialects and that these attitudes are intensified if the…
Descriptors: Bias, Black Dialects, Books, Childhood Attitudes
Reynolds, Ralph E.; And Others – 1981
Two experiments investigated the relationship between cultural schemata and reading comprehension. Subjects for the first experiment were 186 eighth grade students who attended one of five schools--two predominately black inner-city schools, two predominately white working class area schools, and a predominately white agricultural area school.…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences